Hudson River Psychiatric Hospital

[360dylon]

I can't wait to go back

[360dylon]

I miss goin here

[texanzrule57]

My Grandmother was intituitioanlized there for many years.

[tutukathy]

Check out "Turning 15 In The Loony Bin" on Youtube

[JohnathanGoldstein]

still up?

[timberland1108]

that was a bad fire

[northvilletunnels]

Crappiest Kirkbride I have ever been in . I tagged the phone terminal in the medical building.

[northvilletunnels]

Jay Freeman sux. I saw someone throw his stupid christmas tree out of a window. SC!

[NYisontop]

Very sad that there isn't enough public response to rehabilitate such places. When they crumble, we won't have another. In Europe buildings stand several hundred years, sometimes thousands. Here we're lucky to get half a dozen decades. Unless big box Wal-Mart architecture is what we prefer? The argument that they're too costly to maintain is ridiculous.. without them there is no tourism, no local identity, the city withers and slowly dies.

[Di3go720]

so me and my friends r planning on going there, any recommendations on what places we should check out?

[Gecko1265]

been there sad sad sad =(

[poomuncher5000]

im going in a couple months which buildings should me and my friends stay clear of? i know there was a fire in 07 and most parts are messed up, we just want to see the parts that are in decent shape.

[luvebug21]

ugh:0

[CageAroundTheSun]

creepy!

[xuk85]

Psychiatric already creepy

[ViceFan]

Wow, awesome place to explore...spooky! I love exploring old places like this, and take photos. My favorite places to explore and photograph are old schools. When was this mental hospital closed? And I've read here different opinions on whether or not it's still standing after being hit by lightning. Is is still standing or did it completely burn?

[SuperAuschwitz]

I agree with (roosterrocks)the state will pay people to be lazy where other then that there is nothing wrong with them.Those people would rather sit around and get drunk or high all day and guess who pays for it all?All of us tax payers when that money could and should be going to who need it most those places could be restored and used to treat the mentaly ill in our society.

[concorde2u]

I Drive Past HRSH 3or4 Times A Week And It's My Understanding That It Was Closed Because The Plumbing, Electrical

Ect, Is Out Of Code. And That Most Of The People Were Released In The Care Of There Famlies. The Ones With No Famlies Were Sent To Other Hospitals .

[LYNXVAL]

this was a big state hospitals! I often wonder if most of the mental patients are among us now! and of course many dead!! Scary thought!!

[stillrob420]

is this building still standing?

[lumina88]

yes but part of the main buidling was struck by lighting a few years ago and has some heavy fire damage

[roosterrocks]

i think its disgusting that the state cant find money to re-do these places but yet they can find the money to give people who wont even get a job?

[HattieLovesCattie]

A lot of those old beautiful European looking looney bins burn eventually.I hate seeing them torn down.Wish the states would just gut them and rebuild them totally but they say its cheaper to raze them.

[sweetboy81]

It's all about money... sad to see that they rather destroy part of a city's history because it's cheaper than to go ahead and restore the beauty those buildings once had.

[mensballettights]

It's ashame that you yourself weren't a patient at HRSH because if you were, and were subjected to the dehumanizing treatments imposed on the patients, you'd realize that the mistake was to actually waste taxpayer money on such architecture if it was going to be used in such a manner. That hospital, like all other such big, old-fashioned mental hospitals deserves to be haunted, so I hope it it.

[poosaypirate]

@HattieLovesCattie only cheaper financially the long term cost on society is another story

get involved in your local historic societies to see to it that buildings are protected and laws are changed

imagine that was a stunning hotel that you could afford to visit because the economy wasnt owned and controlled by wars

[HattieLovesCattie]

@poosaypirate I am not involved any those historic socieites but my city does have one.Too bad it wasn't around from the turn of the century to the 1950's and '60's when many pretty old buildings were torn down to make way for state gov't office buildings.

[poosaypirate]

@HattieLovesCattie hindsight is 20/20 but dont walk through the res of your life backwards, darlin

[Thomlistentoslayer]

yep it's a kirkbribe=)

[AlabasterDog]

This is one of the Kirkbride's?

These places are GORGEOUS!

I can't wait to get to the east coast to see them.

[crazymanthomas1654]

wow, how old is this place?

[doe333]

It was built 1868 - 1895. It's completely abandoned now.

[Angelahoneydew]

Place is huge

[randomkara]

You should of went inside but other than that its awsome.

[stillrob420]

is this place still standing?

[orphmet]

I believe so. It was when I explored it last October.

[special420player]

yea it is standing but there was  MASSIVE FIRE LAST YEAR Caused by a lightning strike

[bohdanhmelj]

you didin't go in?

[lettybdrunk]

how did you compose your own music?

[forbiddenplaces]

I did not, a friend did it for me!

[Meatzb0x]

@forbiddenplaces

LoL I used to hang out all over that place in the 80's. It was a scary place with most of the complex run down and unused. Found a bunch of dead cats hanging in the attic of one building. Really crazy cutting through there at night. You could hear the patients screaming and it was very dark.

[northvilletunnels]

The government and tax payers dont care about the people that need these places.

For years brutal experiments, eugenics and drug testing was done on these unwilling particiapnts. drug companies went on to make millions.

These places became liabilies and I am glad they were left to rot. they were even to cheap to demolish these places. If they were demolished the stories never would have been known. Left as relics of another generation we have explored and exposed the misery that existed.

[PyroChemicals]

funnily, I'm reminded of a quote by the famous psychologist boris sidis who was one of the earlier critics of these hospitals...

"our asylums are driving people crazy".

With what you read (or just see) looking at these places I'm not the slightest bit surprised if anyone was driven mad in these locations.

[hilbafloyven]

i worked for almost 20years in a very similar institution now lying empty and vandelised..a very sad sight .i still live in the town,and still care for the same peoplein community housing. and still wonder if it was for the better??...tasmania

[MRSMURDAHMA]

THIS MUSIC SOUNDS VERY CREEPY...

[forbiddenplaces]

Indeed, it was composed especially for this short footage :-)

[cyberdolly08]

@forbiddenplaces whats this music called? i like it!!

[forbiddenplaces]

@cyberdolly08 Klawn!

[cyberdolly08]

@forbiddenplaces thank you!!!

[meems914]

What a waste of property/facility when we have so many sick people wandering the streets. Prior to closing down places like HRSH, you didn't see those sad souls with their shopping bags and all their belongings in a shopping cart, mumbling to themselves. They were taken care of in hospitals like Hudson River.

[mensballettights]

Correction. Instead of being taken care of in that hospital, they were just crowded, warehoused, managed, & medicated with only very basic recreational activity and subjected to dehumanizing treatments, like group showers. Also, over 40% of the patients were not seriously ill enough to warrant involuntary committment. So deinstitutionalization had to occur as a matter of civil rights.

[perfectbark]

@mensballettights

and now sadly, many of them are living on the streets. There are tradeoffs in these types of difficult social dilemas where no matter how you look at it, people who are unable to care for themselves are institutionalized at the taxpayers expense amounting to billions of dollars, or simply abandoned to live abandoned structures, or public buildings such as Grand Central Station, or under a bridge somewhere.

Like pets, most people should be neutered.

[poosaypirate]

@mensballettights in those times it was the mental instituions today it is the prison system both are a money making scheme from the gvt

[wafflePWNAGE22]

@mensballettights And patient sizes had severely decreased because of advancements in medicine.

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

@mensballettights Yes agreed but know in a sick irony it has gotten to the point where we need mental institutions (good ones) but we just send them to prison which is the equivalent of sending them to these places because they dont fit in or do well in prison environments.

[bftirlasap69]

ROFL the place just burnt down

[forbiddenplaces]

indeed :-(

[dragonflyNI]

arson?

[forbiddenplaces]

lightning!

[dragonflyNI]

wow, spookier! pity though. :(